Currents – He National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (Senasa)prevented them from reaching consumers’ tables 22 tons of products of plant origin that lacked health documentation to support their origin which represents a danger to public healthin addition to corroborating that the secondary packaging and labeling were of Brazilian origin.
As a result of the routine control carried out, together with the National Gendarmerie, in the Tapebicuá sanitary barriertown of Corrientes department of Paso de los Libres, on National Route 14the irregularities were detected in 3,600 kg of lemons, 2,160 kg of passion fruit and 16,520 kg of ginger.
During the inspection, the agents of the Corrientes-Misiones Regional Center of Senasa They corroborated that the seized products presented a potential danger to public health and to the phytosanitary of national production, at the time of the possible transgression of the regulations referring to the obligation to circulate with the Electronic Plant Transit Document (DTV-e), (Resolutions Senasa 31/15 and joint general resolution 4297/18) and regarding the determination of origin and traceability granted by the National Health Registry of Agricultural Producers (Renspa) (Resolution SAGyP 297/83 and Senasa 58/07).
Finally, the regional agents of Senasa drafted the interdiction acts and carried out the denaturation of the merchandise (Ex MAGYP Resolution 38/12).
Senasa develops this type of operations in safeguarding the national zoophytosanitary status, protecting consumer health and responsible marketing.
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